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Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, former president of the National Lawyers Guild, deputy secretary general of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, and a member of the National Advisory Board of Veterans for Peace.Her most recent book is Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral, and Geopolitical Issues. See http://marjoriecohn.com/ . .
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, November 1, 2010 Let's Rally to Restore Peace
Jon Stewart spent a whole show last week interviewing Obama about everything from health care to the economy. But neither man mentioned the wars, even though the billions spent on them could go a long way toward fixing the economy and paying for health care.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 28, 2009 Obama's Guantanamo Appeasement Plan
Two days after his inauguration, President Obama pledged to close Guantánamo within one year. The Republicans, led by Senators John McCain, Mitch McConnell and Pat Roberts, immediately launched a concerted campaign to assail the new president. And now even the Democrats are piling on the bandwagon.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 10, 2009 A Call to End All Renditions
Binyam Mohamed,an Ethiopian residing in Britain,said he was tortured after being sent to Morocco and Afghanistan in 2002 by the US govt. He was transferred to Guantánamo in 2004 and all terrorism charges against him were dismissed last year. He was a victim of extraordinary rendition,in which a person is abducted without any legal proceedings and transferred to a foreign country for detention and interrogation, often tortured.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Preemptive Strikes Against Protest at RNC
In the months leading up to the Republican National Convention, the FBI-led Minneapolis Joint Terrorist Task Force actively recruited people to infiltrate vegan groups and other leftist organizations and report back about their activities. On May 21, the Minneapolis City Pages ran a recruiting story called "Moles Wanted." Law enforcement sought to preempt lawful protest against the policies of the Bush administration
SHARE Monday, November 24, 2008 Guantanamo Justice After Seven Years
The sanctioned use of torture by the Bush/Cheney regime will be judged by history as one the crueler acts of barbarism committed in their quest for world domination.
The recent judicial beat down given the administration over this recent group of illegitimately held prisoners is just the beginning.
How many times and how often must one say never again?
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, February 15, 2008 Injustice at Guantanamo: Torture Evidence and the Military Commissions Act
Dick Cheney and other officials who participated in formulating the abusive interrogation policies should be investigated under the U.S. War Crimes Act. And the Democratic-controlled Congress should repeal the Military Commissions Act that Bush rammed through the Republican-controlled Congress.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 24, 2008 Hillary Invokes Assassination
It's astounding that a presidential candidate could verbalize such a thing when the collective American psyche still aches from the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy. Many of us remember where we were when these heroes were shot. The pain we felt is palpable. We still suffer from their absence.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, October 8, 2007 Torture Endorsed, Torture Denied
It is incumbent upon the Senate Judiciary Committee to vigorously interrogate Michael Mukasey during his attorney general confirmation hearing. As AG, Mukasey would oversee the department that writes interrogation policy. Mukasey should know that the Convention Against Torture prohibits torture in all circumstances, even in times of war.
(14 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 24, 2008 Scalia Cites False Information in Habeas Corpus Dissent
To bolster his argument that the Guantánamo detainees should be denied the right to prove their innocence in federal courts, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in his dissent in Boumediene v. Bush: "At least 30 of those prisoners hitherto released from Guantánamo have returned to the battlefield." It turns out that statement is false.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, October 22, 2007 Michael Mukasey: Another Loyal Bushie
The Michael Mukasey Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing has demonstrated that Mukasey cannot be relied upon to function independently as U.S. Attorney General. Nevertheless, Senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee seem so thrilled that Mukasey is not Alberto Gonzales that they're willing to vote for him even though he's another loyal Bushie.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 9, 2007 FISA Revised: A Blank Check for Domestic Spying
New Congressionally-approved amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act give the Bush administration wide discretion to illegally spy on Americans
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 1, 2007 Time for an Independent Counsel
In light of material inconsistencies in Alberto Gonzales's testimony before Congress, a criminal investigation is warranted. Gonzales, who is suspected of committing perjury, has a conflict of interest. The public interest requires that the highest prosecutor in the land be brought to justice.
Congress should appoint a permanent special counsel to investigate and advise Congress about misconduct...
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 25, 2007 Turning Iraq Into Vietnam
Congress has no more will to end the Iraq War than it did the Vietnam War. It was one year after our troops came home that Congress finally cut the funding for all support of the South Vietnamese government;